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Atlanta Woman's Club

Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia

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Atlanta Woman's Club. The Atlanta Women's Club, organized November 11, 1895, was inspired by a council meeting in Atlanta of the General Federation of Women's Clubs during the Cotton States and International Exposition. Mrs. Rebecca Douglas Lowe was founder and first president of this Club whose object is "threefold - social, literary and humanitarian." On Oct. 27, 1896, the Atlanta Woman's Club was hostess to organized women's clubs in Georgia to form the State Federation. Meetings have been held at the home of the founder, the deGive Opera House, the Club's first home at 17 Baker St. and the present clubhouse, purchased in 1919 and extensively enlarged since then. 060-149A GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956

Erected by Georgia Historical Commission

The Story

Organized on November 11, 1895, the Atlanta Woman's Club grew out of a General Federation of Women's Clubs gathering held during the Cotton States and International Exposition. Under founding president Rebecca Douglas Lowe, the club pursued a "threefold" mission—social, literary, and humanitarian—and in 1896 it hosted the meeting that formed the Georgia State Federation of women's clubs. After years of meeting in members' homes and rented halls, it bought its lasting clubhouse in 1919.

Why it matters

The club is part of the national women's-club movement that gave middle-class women a public civic voice in the decades before suffrage, channeling their energy into reform and community life.

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